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Minorities and Indigenous Women

Indigenous women and other minorities suffer from a lack of political representation, economic marginalization and poverty, lack of access to social services and discrimination. This section highlights news, resources and stories on minorities and indigenous women's struggle for political inclusion.

Political participation of women with disabilities at the focus of an OSCE ODIHR event

According to the World Health Organization, there are approximately one billion persons with disabilities worldwide. This amounts to approximately 15 per cent of the population, half of them women. At the same time, persons with disabilities remain...

Hundreds of thousands of women marched on the streets in response to Donald Trump’s election in 2017. A year after his inauguration, women marched again. This time though, they’re also taking their fight to the ballot box.
A record number of women...

Roundtable to enhance political participation of women with disability in Pakistan

Islamabad: To enhance political participation of women with disability (WWD), participants of a roundtable discussion stressed for concrete measures to ensure issuance of national identity cards to WDDs and voter’s registration besides making...

Higher Heights Leadership Fund and the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at Rutgers University, “Black Women in American Politics: 2017 Status Update is an analysis of the 2016 election and highlights the key wins for women of color...

Electing More Black Women Requires Rejecting a Single Story of Women’s Political Progress

This OpEd was originally published by NBC on 27 July 2017 here.
By Glynda C. Carr and Kelly DDittmar
There is no single story for women in American politics. Take election 2016 for example. Few have characterized last year’s election as good for...

Serbian lawmakers elected Ana Brnabic as prime minister on Thursday, making history by choosing both the conservative Balkan nation's first female prime minister and its first openly gay leader.
Parliament voted 157-55 to approve the government of...

MEXICO CITY — Mexico will hold its presidential elections next year. And for the first time, an indigenous woman is running for the office.
More than 50 indigenous communities from the National Indigenous Council (CNI) have designated their...

Mikie Sherrill has never run for office. But after piloting Navy rescue missions to places like the Persian Gulf, Italy and Bahrain, where the heat and humidity rattle the helicopter engine and the only thing you can count on is your calculation...

International IDEA hosts all-day event at UN on Political Participation of Migrants and Refugees

The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) has organized a discussion on “Political Participation in Times of Mass Migration and Refugee Crises” at UN Headquarters in collaboration with the Permanent...

This post is part of a series produced by The Huffington Post, in conjunction with the U.N.’s 22ndConference of the Parties (COP22) in Morocco (Nov. 7-18). To view the entire series, click here.
By Yannick Glemarec, Deputy Executive Director of UN...

By Erin Donelly
Oregon Democrat Kate Brown became the first openly LGBT person to be elected governor yesterday. Though Gov. Brown is married to a man, she identifies as a bisexual woman.
Gov. Brown was actually the incumbent in Oregon's...

ISIS Terror Against Women: Trauma expert on mission to record ISIS horror stories

Abu Chiad boasted about beheading infidels, raping women and children and slaughtering in the name of Islam. Speaking from a prison in the city of Kirkuk, in northern Iraq, he told Dr. Jan Kizilhan that these acts would get him to heaven.
Kizilhan,...

After Amira’s husband was killed in the Syrian war, she found herself adrift in Lebanon. Barred from working and with two young children to feed, she resorted to marrying off her nine-year-old daughter and putting her 12-year-old son to work.
Amira...

Womankind Worldwide explains the importance of the CDIMA, Center for the Holistic Development of Aymara Women (CDIMA). Asunta is 46 and from Queñi. For years she suffered physical and emotional abuse from her brother. “He wanted to have all the land...

This blog post was written by 2015–16 National Student Advisory Council Member Na-Yeon Park and published on 22 August 2016 by the American Association of University Women (AAUW) here.
As a child of immigrant parents and as a woman of color, I grew...

The first Aboriginal woman elected to Australia's lower house of parliament has promised to bring the "fighting spirit of her clan" to political life.
In her maiden speech, Linda Burney wore a traditional kangaroo-skin cloak with her personal totem...